Chana Widawski
…world, and capable of anything. Chana Widawski, LMSW, chairs her block association, stewards her local park and leads educational travel programs around the globe. She works with survivors of…
A Lady and Her Bicycle
Search Lilith
Following Our Cycling Foremother: Spinning Fiction on Two Wheels
Karen Skinazi
…I think I am cycling through a cheering crowd and waving my arm in gratitude. Annie Kopchovsky, better known by her alias, Annie Londonberry. Since reading Chana Widawski’s Lilith post…
An Ode to Plastic Bags
Chana Widawski
…I am both green and greeneh. Chana Widawski, a social worker, leads local park and community programming, educational trips around the globe, and works with survivors of abuse and violence….
Returning to the Garden
by Chana Widawski
…businesses? Or will Jewish farming be about the power of using farming and the natural world as the ultimate classroom for shaping educational, community-building and identity-shaping goals? Chana Widawski, a…
Access to Many Worlds
by Chana Widawski
…people who are just like us, except for their hearing.” Chana Widawski, a social worker, is a bicycle commuter and story collector who works with survivors of abuse and violence,…
Modest Hasidic Girls
by Susan Sapiro
…told Chana in Yiddish, ‘When you become a boy, you’ll understand.’ Everyone laughed, including Chana and Mrs. Silver.” Hasidic girls are taught that their modesty, explained as the obligation to…
Mrs. Akiva Speaks
by Yochi Brandes, translated from the Hebrew by Ilana Kurshan
…earlier, I need to spend five days a week working as a laundress from dawn to dusk, otherwise I will not be able to support Chana. That first week we…
Stitching for Survival: the Story of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel
Yona Zeldis McDonough
…Chana had been murdered in Auschwitz; Leo had survived. But before he passed on, Leo had bequeathed the memory of Chana to Trudie, and now Trudie would share it with…
Queerspawn – What’s That??
by Orli Cotel
You’ve heard of the Nanny Diaries and the Bridget Jones Diaries, but welcome to the world of “”Queer Spawn Diaries’”: Nava EtShalom and Chana Joffe Walt are two young Jewish…
My Son Was Drafted
poetry by Yehuda Amichai; translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
…Closed Open will be published by Harcourt Brace this year. Chana Block is director of the Creative Writing Program at Mills College. Chana Kronfeld is a professor in the Department…